Quantifiers, anaphora, and intensionality
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Quantifiers, anaphora, and intensionality
zbMATH Open document ID: 0877.03018
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008224124336
author: O. Diekmann
published in: Journal of Logic, Language and Information
publication date: 1997-12-08T00:00:00Z
review text: This paper makes use of linear logic in order to exhibit the relationship between Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) and semantic interpretations. LFG assumes two syntactic levels of representation: constituent structure (i.e. a phrase structure tree encoding precedence relation) and functional structure (i.e. an attribute-value matrix encoding the predicate argument structure). The authors use linear logic for representing the link between functional structures and their meanings. This can represent the constraints on the creation and use of semantic units in sentence interpretation. This is applied to quantification, adequacy and intensional verbs. Various examples are given. A comparison is made with recent refinements and variants of the well-known Lambek calculus.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03B65
zbMATH DE Number: 1038918
zbMATH Keywords: variants of Lambek calculus
zbMATH Keywords: lexical-functional grammar
zbMATH Keywords: linear logic
zbMATH Keywords: semantic interpretations
zbMATH Keywords: constituent structure
zbMATH Keywords: functional structure
zbMATH Keywords: quantification
zbMATH Keywords: adequacy
zbMATH Keywords: intensional verbs
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